NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An independent autopsy of an unarmed Mexican man killed by police in Washington state shows he was...
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — When Agapita Montes-Rivera first watched the video of her son being gunned down by police in Washington...
Samantha Masunaga, L.A. TIMES PASCO, Wash. (The Los Angeles Times)—Several hundred people marched through the streets of Pasco, Wash., on Saturday to protest the fatal...
SEAN CARLIN, Associated Press GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — A police video of officers confronting and then fatally shooting a black man in...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A video released by the city of Cleveland shows a police officer pushing a 14-year-old girl to the ground...
The Associated Press The killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers in Missouri and New York this summer touched off protests and...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Rafael Ramos had been a school security guard before he joined the New York City Police Department two years ago....
Andrew Chung, REUTERS (Reuters)—One of the dozens of rallies and marches in New York this week to protest police violence against minorities was organized by...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rocker Jon Bon Jovi donned a New York Police Department T-shirt on stage. Well-wishers delivered home-baked cookies...
TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The family of a Milwaukee man who was fatally shot by a city police officer say they aren’t giving...
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE (AP) — A white Milwaukee police officer who was fired after he fatally shot a black man in a downtown...
Aaron Blake, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—A significant majority of Americans think race relations in the United States are bad, and race issues appear as...
Eric Bradner, CNN Washington (CNN)—President Barack Obama prodded Congress to eliminate the United States’ decades-old Cuba embargo Friday, saying that improving relations with the communist...
Adam Ferrise, The Plain Dealer via CLEVELAND.COM CLEVELAND, Ohio (Cleveland.com)—Dozens of people are gathering outside the Cudell Recreation Center to protest the police shooting of...
By john a. powell NNPA Guest Columnist Thousands recently took to the streets in protest and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “…a country’s conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, because I think a lot of people...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Who, if anyone, is leading the emerging movement around the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner...
PHOENIX (AP) — A poignant image has emerged from protests over a deadly police shooting in Phoenix. The 9-year-old daughter of Rumain Brisbon was among those...
By Floyd Alvin Galloway Special to the NNPA from The Arizona Informant The death of Rumain Brisbon Tuesday, December 2, threw Phoenix into the national spotlight...
(Tele Sur) – An African-American man is in a critical condition after being shot a by a white police officer in Florida early Monday morning. Witnesses have stated Cedric Bartee had his hands...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” “No Justice, No Peace” “I Can’t Breathe” “Black Lives Matter” Those are the chants...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again. “I can’t breathe,” he said as several police officers...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist From nearly the moment he was attacked by a New York City police officer July 18, the world has,...
Allen G. Breed, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—Ferguson, Missouri. Cleveland, Ohio. Staten Island, New York. Eutawville, South Carolina. In each place, individuals — all unarmed except for...
TERRY TANG, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The deadly shooting of a black, unarmed drug suspect by a white Arizona police officer who mistook a pill...
